musicDale Barlow

MUSIC

Original Music by Dale Barlow (Saxophone)Lloyd Swanton (Double Bass)

Recorded at Soundfirm

Music for David's SongComposed by Kate ReidPerformed by Kate Reid and Kelly Dingwall

'Breaking Up Somebody's Home'(Al Jackson Jun., Timothy Mathews)Performed by The Hippos(Courtesy WEA, Warner Chappel Music)

Lyrics:

David’s song, performed by Kelly Dingwall, is played briefly at the start of the show, and then in full near the end of the movie after the joint’s been wrecked.

Lyrics for the song:

I can control my hands my dearI can control my faceI can put a stop to my legs you knowSee me cleverly stand in one placeI can control my lips my dearI can control my tongueI can put a stop to idle chatI can even control my bum (makes a farting noise with his lips)

(speaking) Well most of the time!

I can control my gluteus maximusI can control what I say and doBut I can’t control my mind my dear …… especially when I’m with you …(piano interlude)(slowly) No I can’t control my mind my dear...… especially when I’m with you …(piano runs a little more then ends)

The Hippos provide the song which runs over the tail credits. Lyrics for the song:

Can’t control the feeling‘Cause after all I didn’t make myselfI got no one to turn to I’m tired of being aloneI feel like breaking up somebody’s homeI just want to break it upI feel like breaking upI just want to break it upI want to break it up YeeaaahhhI got no one to turn to I’m tired of being aloneI feel like breaking up somebody’s home

I’ve got no one to turn toI’m tired of being aloneI feel like breaking up somebody’s home ...(instrumental then to end of titles)

Kate Reid:

Kate Reid, who worked on the song, is represented at the Australian Music Centre here:

Kate Reid was born in Bowral, NSW, in 1948 and began piano studies at the age of seven. Subsequently she studied under Norma Williams, Donald Hollier, Albert Landa and Ronald Farren-Price, all of whom made substantial contributions to her creative development.On leaving school, Reid studied piano in Paris under Mme Bascouret de Gueraldi of the Ecole Normale before returning home to complete a BA at Sydney University where she studied composition with Peter Sculthorpe and Eric Gross.Shortly after, Reid married and raised a family in Southern NSW, where her aesthetic sensibility was formed by the sights and sounds of the Australian bush.In 1977 she returned to Sydney to embark upon an acting career and this new direction provided opportunities to write music for theatre, cabaret, film, television and radio.An accomplished pianist, Reid has performed her own compositions at concert venues in Australia, Ireland, and Croatia. Her works have also been included in concerts and recordings in France and Korea. She has worked as Musical Director, arranger and pianist at the Sydney Writers' Festival, the Sydney Theatre Company and in various venues throughout NSW. She co-founded The Madrigirls, a six-part all-female a cappella group, which performed in the Sydney Opera House Studio and Belvoir St Theatre. She has also had piano pieces performed in Suzuki concerts at the Sydney Opera House.Since the mid-1980s Reid's love of composing has taken precedence over her acting career. As well as writing incidental music for theatre and film, she has composed for solo piano, voice, small ensembles and orchestra. She has collaborated with director Rodney Fisher AOM and author Morris Gleitzman on the children's musical, Give Peas a Chance. In 2007 the Riverside Theatre Parramatta commissioned her to set to music Robert Browning's poem, The Pied Piper. Other commissions have included music for the Australian War Memorial's touring exhibition The Spirit of Anzac and the score for Andrew Furphy's 2013 film Child Lost on Goolumbulla.

The works that best represent Reid's style include Elvira, a sextet for violins, piano and double bass, performed at the Sydney Conservatorium in 2013, and two songs for soprano and piano, A Child's Odyssey (words by Alison Marshall) and Empty Rooms(words by Rodney Fisher), also performed at the Sydney Conservatorium in 2015.Reid cites contemporary Australian composers Carl Vine, Matthew Hindson, Paul Stanhope and Clare Maclean as significant influences.She is currently completing her Master's in Music (Composition) under the supervision of Paul Stanhope at the Conservatorium of Music in Sydney.

(Below: Kate Reid)

Composer Dale Barlow:

The score is jazz and saxophone inflected, and it’s therefore not surprising that Dale Barlow was well known as a jazz saxophonist who moved to New York, playing with the Cedar Walton Quartet and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers.

Barlow has a good short wiki here. Barlow is represented here, which contains a couple of his works for playing/listening, as well as this short CV:

One of Australia's most accomplished and internationally recognised jazz artists, Dale was a member of legendary American groups The Cedar Walton Quartet, and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, two of the greatest training grounds for young musicians in jazz history. Widely recognised as an inspiring, virtuosic and original Tenor saxophonist/composer, he is also an accomplished flutist/bass clarinettist/arranger and pianist. As a composer he has written for large and small ensembles, film, theatre and television and recorded extensively. His credits include touring and recording with some of the all-time greats: Sonny Stitt, Chet Baker, Gil Evans, Jackie Mclean, Billy Cobham, Curtis Fuller, Eddie Palmieri, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Golson, Lee

Konitz, Helen Merryl, Mulgrew Miller, Cindy Blackman, Ernie Watts, Eddie Henderson, Kenny Barron, Ray Drummond, Billy Higgins, Cedar Walton and of course Art Blakey.Born into a musical family, Dale was highly acclaimed at a very early age in Australia as a featured soloist with various youth big bands and small groups. By the age of 17 he was reluctantly being coupled with touring American jazz greats by agents excited at showing off Australian young talent. He toured with one of his idols, Sonny Stitt. After completing his musical studies at the NSW conservatorium, he moved to New York to further hone his musical skills and be part of the greatest Jazz scene in the world. He studied saxophone with George Coleman and Dave Liebman, piano with Barry Harris, and Hall Galper, and won a scholarship to study at the "Jazz composers workshop" with Bob Brookmeyer and Manny Album. During this time he worked the New York Scene and toured the world constantly, performing regularly at major jazz festivals throughout the USA, Canada, Europe, Japan, Asia and the Soviet Union, and recording with many of the great Jazz Artist.

Since returning to Australia, Dale has received numerous awards and accolades including: Album of the Year / Jazz Performer of the Year / International Artist of the Year / Bicentennial Artist of the Year, and numerous grants and credits for his achievements and contribution to the arts in Australia. He appears regularly on television and enjoys excellent media attention. For the last 3 years Dale has toured as a member of Billy Cobham's band. He continues to work around the world as a bandleader, recording artist, and as a hired soloist/composer and arranger with numerous other groups.

(Below: Dale Barlow)

Lloyd Swanton - double bass:

To complete the jazz orientation, Barlow worked with Lloyd Swanton, an exponent of double bass, as well as a composer.

Swanton has a wiki listing here.

Swanton attracted considerable attention in 2016, with a 2 CD tribute to his uncle Stuart Swanton, captured as part of Gull Force and imprisoned on Ambon. Swanton died, and the film Blood Oath dealt with the war crimes trial arising from Japanese treatment of Australian POWs.

The album is listed at Rufus Records here.

(Below: Lloyd Swanton).